GemStone IV Staff List - April 2019

[Avaia]

It's on the Officials and it is a big list, so I will just link it -

http://forums.play.net/forums/GemStone%20IV/General%20GemStone%20IV%20Discussion/Staff%20Updates%20and%20Goals%20Discussion/thread/1901639?get_newest=true

[Tgo01]

New player experience team? Are there that many new players these days to have a whole dedicated team to them?

[Taernath]

Pretty sure like half of current players are GMs now.

Assistant GM vs. Contributing GM vs. GM Apprentice has me scratching my head.

https://i.imgur.com/2KdZupk.jpg

[gilchristr]

That looks like a family tree, and I thought the party planning commitee bubble said family planning committee.

[Donquix]

2:1 ratio of "admin and training" to "development"

Usually that's a real good sign for software development.

[Velfi]

Pretty sure like half of current players are GMs now.

Assistant GM vs. Contributing GM vs. GM Apprentice has me scratching my head.

https://i.imgur.com/2KdZupk.jpg

Assistant TO the GM

[Astray]

The biggest joke of April.

[Fortybox]

Which one is Time4fun?

[RichardCranium]

Which one is Time4fun?

Caramia.

[audioserf]

It would make sense if she was on that list. Hasn't been on PC in about a month and I haven't seen her in game since DR some time.

[Wrathbringer]

It would make sense if she was on that list. Hasn't been on PC in about a month and I haven't seen her in game since DR some time and they always seem to hire the biggest douchebags.

Fixed.

[Taernath]

Caramia.

I know you're joking, but there's no way time4fun would be able to keep that on the down low.

"rofl honey, do you even KNOW the kind of work it takes to run a paid festival? Let's just say you'll need several degrees from Ivy league schools to even come close to managing it."

[Methais]

Pretty sure like half of current players are GMs now.

Assistant GM vs. Contributing GM vs. GM Apprentice has me scratching my head.

https://i.imgur.com/2KdZupk.jpg

I’d much rather have Dundler-Mifflin GMs.

Mikos has been a GM since the 90s with a break at some point. He built my house in like 2001. He should be running the show by now in dev. Or maybe he doesn’t give a shit.

[Methais]

It would make sense if she was on that list. Hasn't been on PC in about a month and I haven't seen her in game since DR some time.

The cycle of time4fun:

says really stupid things > gets proven wrong > doubles down anyway > gets proven wrong even more > disappears until the next butthurt TDS fueled Trump “scandal” > shows back up with at least 1 new PhD and/or super duper important new job that’s been keeping her away > says really stupid things > gets proven wrong > doubles down anyway > gets proven wrong even more > disappears until the next butthurt TDS fueled Trump “scandal” > shows back up with at least 1 new PhD and/or super duper important new job that’s been keeping her away > says really stupid things > gets proven wrong > doubles down anyway > gets proven wrong even more > disappears until the next butthurt TDS fueled Trump “scandal” > shows back up with at least 1 new PhD and/or super duper important new job that’s been keeping her away > says really stupid things > gets proven wrong > doubles down anyway > gets proven wrong even more > disappears until the next butthurt TDS fueled Trump “scandal” > shows back up with at least 1 new PhD and/or super duper important new job that’s been keeping her away > etc.

[Gelston]

Wtf, itzel is back as a gma?

[Astray]

Wtf, itzel is back as a gma?

Spit on 'em.

[Methais]

Wasn’t Itzel like Andraste-lite? Or am I thinking of someone else?

[Donquix]

Pretty sure like half of current players are GMs now.

Assistant GM vs. Contributing GM vs. GM Apprentice has me scratching my head.

Pretty sure contributing GM are people who don't have the time or desire to do the "full" commitment and do what they can as time / motivation allow.

[Gelston]

Yeah, a GM Apprentice is a new dude. An Assistant GM is basically a GMA that has passed their first phase of training and is working a being a Full GM. A Contributing GM is a GM that has been around for a bit but can't keep up with the monthly/weekly and festival requirements. Some of them are around just as much as before, some of them are really just gone mostly.

[Methais]

Pretty sure contributing GM are people who don't have the time or desire to do the "full" commitment and do what they can as time / motivation allow.

And the rest of them...

https://caragaleblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/tod-15.png?w=670

[Donquix]

And the rest of them...

https://caragaleblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/tod-15.png?w=670

Those kids dug out an entire mine and populated it with capped hunting in what is basically Zul. They are infinitely more productive.

[SpiffyJr]

2:1 ratio of "admin and training" to "development"

Usually that's a real good sign for software development.


Entirely depends on how many of them are training for development, doesn't it?

[Stanley Burrell]

Mikos is the shniznod, I love that guy.

[Gelston]

Entirely depends on how many of them are training for development, doesn't it?

When I went through, we had probably 10 people, about 3 or 4 were going to Dev.

[Parkbandit]

Damn.. Isten is still there. He was there in 2002 doing that job.

I always liked him.

[Taernath]

When I went through, we had probably 10 people, about 3 or 4 were going to Dev.

How many of them stuck around?

[Neveragain]

Assistant TO the GM

https://image-ticketfly.imgix.net/00/02/39/04/54-og.jpg?w=300&h=300

[Gelston]

How many of them stuck around?

Looks like 4, as far as I can remember from my class. Haliste was one of them.


Damn.. Isten is still there. He was there in 2002 doing that job.

I always liked him.

He has been around since the '90s, probably has more seniority than anyone else currently on staff.

[Taernath]

Sleken and Coase have been around a while. The two of them plus Isten are probably the only ones left from the 2003 HSN Dream Team (https://www.play.net/gs4/news/features/credits.asp).

[drauz]

Didn't see Viduus on there

[Methais]

Didn't see Viduus on there

He got fired after they found out an iridescent core dropped.

[Murrandii]

Why only 1 (un) staff member by the way? I find that interesting only 1 (un) of em is part of the big team, no?

[Fortybox]

It would make sense if she was on that list. Hasn't been on PC in about a month and I haven't seen her in game since DR some time.

When you see 576 gender options in character creation we will know for sure.

[Gelston]

Sleken and Coase have been around a while. The two of them plus Isten are probably the only ones left from the 2003 HSN Dream Team (https://www.play.net/gs4/news/features/credits.asp).

I believe Isten was around in 93 or so. I was screwing around with scripts and found a particularly old one that was created by him that was from then. I questioned him and he just laughed.

[Taernath]

I believe Isten was around in 93 or so. I was screwing around with scripts and found a particularly old one that was created by him that was from then. I questioned him and he just laughed.

https://i.imgflip.com/2xpel6.jpg

[Gelston]

https://i.imgflip.com/2xpel6.jpg

That is probably the most accurate meme created in the history of the internet.

[gemstonefella]

Damn.. Isten is still there. He was there in 2002 doing that job.

I always liked him.

He's the man......mysterious also. I only know of one or two that have ever met him.

[Gelston]

He's the man......mysterious also. I only know of one or two that have ever met him.

He pretty much only does training for new GMs, whereas other GMs on the training staff have other jobs in GS and such. If you've never done that, you'll probably never see him.

[gemstonefella]

I meant real life. I think he told me he had only met one GM ever face to face. Khaladon.

[Stumplicker]

I meant real life. I think he told me he had only met one GM ever face to face. Khaladon.

Unrelated, but it reminded me. When I was a new Mentor, they used to give you a mentor mentor to mentor you about mentoring. Mine was Hewward. Turns out he lived and worked in the same small town (population about 1500 at the time) in Jersey as I did. We worked less than a mile from each other. We walked to the pizza place in town and had lunch instead of talking in game.

[Methais]

Unrelated, but it reminded me. When I was a new Mentor, they used to give you a mentor mentor to mentor you about mentoring. Mine was Hewward. Turns out he lived and worked in the same small town (population about 1500 at the time) in Jersey as I did. We worked less than a mile from each other. We walked to the pizza place in town and had lunch instead of talking in game.

And then we scissored buttholes.

https://i.imgur.com/sPazOyN.png

[Donquix]

https://i.imgur.com/sPazOyN.png

Finding out Flimbo is from Jersey:
https://zippy.gfycat.com/SophisticatedPleasedArchaeocete.gif

[Gelston]

I meant real life. I think he told me he had only met one GM ever face to face. Khaladon.

Eh, I imagine a lot of GMs are never met IRL. I mean, if you don't go to SimuCon or any of that shit, you'll probably never see any... And not all GMs go to SimuCon either way.

[Stumplicker]

https://i.imgur.com/sPazOyN.png

The scissoring of buttholes also happened in game.

Edit to add: He showed me how to use MENTOR GO so we could do it on every continent.

[gemstonefella]

That's pretty wild!

[Ashlander]

When did Naos come back? Or am I misremembering his leaving?

[Donquix]

When did Naos come back? Or am I misremembering his leaving?

relatively recently, i did the same doubletake, but it's been a little while now. He's pretty active on discord.

[kookiegod]

I meant real life. I think he told me he had only met one GM ever face to face. Khaladon.

This would be true.

We had lunch several times in Springfield MA.

Great guy.

~Paul